Pioneer GEX-P10HD HD Radio Tuner for Pioneer HD Radio-Ready Head Units

Amazon Customer Reviews

(2 out of 5)

Buy only if you MUST have HD Radio...

The built in analog tuner is less sensitive than the tuner in the base radio, so I lose sensitivity in order to gain HD. I have tried the splitter so I can take advantage of the analog tuner and the HD tuner at the same time, and the analog tuner does not work while the HD is plugged in to the deck.

HD tuner is not as sensitive as the tuner in my older JVC HDR1. HD2 and HD3 stations that came in fine with the JVC do not come in as well with the this unit. If I didn't have the JVC I might be satisfied, but since I know there is better I was definitely let down.

The install is straight forward, and it works, but unless you NEED HD I would skip this add on, or get a JVC Deck with the HD built in to the Deck.

(4 out of 5)

HD Radio adapter

I bought this to use with my Pioneer AVIC-D3 navigation. It works as advertised, as an external device so it is not perfect, but is easily usable from the AVIC touchscreen. The presets are stored by number only for reference but you cannot store a HD2 station. If you do it tunes to the HD1 station and you have to tune up manually to HD2. The HD station quality is noticeably better than standard FM and when you tune it first plays FM then switches to HD in a few seconds. The digital text broadcast is only 8 characters but is usable. If you listen to a lot of FM radio and want to get extra HD stations then you'll need a HD tuner. This is a good solution for adding that to your existing radio. I'd like to see it at a lower price however.

(1 out of 5)

Disappointed

Can not store presets when using the GEX-P10HD in conjunction with the 9800BT head unit. Will not display frequency if radio station is broadcasting ID (KYOT shows instead of 95.5). The tuning is slow and I can no longer use the original FM tuner (unless I unplug the HD unit) since the antenna can only go one place. I could install a splitter but, I would be cutting signal strength in half and, since I travel often, don't want to sacrifice range.
I thought Pioneer would be more polished than this. I'm very disappointed.

(1 out of 5)

Garbage

Do not buy this unit unless you really really want HD radio. I installed this unit with the DVD4000. Unit works, was able to receive few HD channel. But I lost most if not all of my analog station. Even stations with strong signal was hard to receive and lots lots of interference and it's a punishment to listen to FM radio.( I live in San Francisco with many stations) Few HD radio sounds good but often with interference. About AM, I just lost everything. I can barely able to listen to 1050 ESPN, which was a very clear station before. I regretted so much that I installed this garbage in my car and I really hate to take everything apart again. I will not install this garbage even it's free. So disappointed with Pioneer. They could not make just a descent radio, not to mention a great one which I expected. I just could not believe Pioneer can come out with a piece of junk like this garbage radio. It's worse than a radio back in 1960, way worse.
p.s. I almost forgot about the nav. of this junk, you can't see the frequency, there is nothing with the 6 presets,(just 1 to 6, so please guess or remember them, also memorize the name of all the stations), you also have few options in the function menu and it shows: function 1
function 2
function 3
function 4
what it stands for? Guess, sucker.

(5 out of 5)

Love HD radio

I don't understand the negative reviews. But then I don't want to even bother with regular radio when I can have HD. Also with HD channels there seem to be less commercials, some with even no commercials. So BONUS!I have mine setup with the FH-P800BT and it works fine.